Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Biet Simkin on How to Awaken Your Soul When Life Breaks You | EP 611
Thu, 15 May 2025
In this raw and revealing conversation, Biet Simkin opens up about losing her mother, her child, and her way—then finding herself through sobriety, spirituality, and sound. From rock-bottom addiction to becoming a globally respected meditation guide, Biet shows how even life's darkest moments can become portals to awakening.Click here for the full show notes: https://passionstruck.com/biet-simkin-how-to-wake-up-when-life-breaks-you/Join the Ignition Room!Join the new free Passion Struck Community to win Passion Struck merchandise! - The Ignition Room: https://station.page/passionstruckTogether, John and Biet explore:Why Biet believes suffering is not something to run from—but something to learn fromThe moment she lost everything—and how it led to radical transformationHow sobriety became a technicolor awakeningThe connection between meditation, music, and matteringHow to stop chasing external validation and reclaim your life from the inside outCatch more of Biet Simkin: https://www.bietsimkin.com/Catch More of Passion Struck:My solo episode on Why Hustle Culture Is Toxic (And How to Break Free From It)Can't miss my episode with Homaira Kabir on How You Overcome the Tyranny of PerfectionMy episode with Susan Cain on What is the Happiness of Being BittersweetListen to my interview with Thomas Curran on Breaking Free From the Perfection TrapCatch my interview with Matthew Weintrub on the Psychedelic Origin of ReligionListen to my solo episode on Why You Should Avoid the Trap of Effortless PerfectionIf you liked the show, please leave us a review—it only takes a moment and helps us reach more people! Don’t forget to include your Twitter or Instagram handle so we can thank you personally.How to Connect with John:Connect with John on Twitter at @John_RMilesFollow him on Instagram at @John_R_MilesSubscribe to our main YouTube Channel and to our YouTube Clips ChannelFor more insights and resources, visit John’s websiteWant to explore where you stand on the path to becoming Passion Struck? Take our 20-question quiz on Passionstruck.com and find out today!See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Who is Biet Simkin and what is her background?
So I was created on the wings of this awakening and I was created with the intention of being brought to the free world and I was told from the time that I was born that I was free and because we're about to go into the next part of my story like the mixture of Understanding what a privilege it is to be free and to be born with
that kind of legacy within me, that kind of talent and that kind of grace and that. To be raised with, my father was an awakened shaman by the time I was around. So he had this awakening in the woods of Russia, cured himself of tuberculosis, and then was like, let's create a freedom child. By the time they got to the States and I was born, he was already living as an enlightened master.
And so I grew up studying with him my whole life. And Yeah, I took that very seriously. So when my life became very painful, as we'll go into, I was confused. And I think till this day, actually, and for anyone listening, I think there's something very painful about the juxtaposition or the paradox of of the lie and the truth, right?
Like we're faced with so much adversity as human beings just by being alive. Just being alive is enough. You don't even need to go through all the shit that I'm about to go through in this story to feel the burn of being a human being.
So I want to lean a little bit more into your story growing up, first when your mom is part of it, and then when your mom is not part of it. So you're being raised with both your parents, who, as I understand, didn't speak the greatest English when they came. And what was your home like with your parents as a child?
I grew up being raised by my grandparents. The way that it worked was my entire family moved here. And so my grandparents, two sets, lived in a tenement building in Queens on one block in one building. And then across the street, my parents had a one bedroom apartment in another tenement building in Queens across the street.
And so I spent the weekends with my brother, my father, my mother, the four of us. And during the week, Monday through Friday, I was with my grandparents and my brother and I would swap grandparents day by day. So like they would take me, then the next grandparents would take me and back and forth. And it was a very close knit family, but my father and my mother were close.
very advanced and very advanced spiritual seekers. And my grandparents were not that. They were just elderly, fun, drinking, interesting, smart as f**k, but not like spiritual seekers. In fact, they were all trained to be atheists in communist Russia. You were supposed to be, you were either atheist or you like believed in a very specific Christian God. I don't know.
They just were like, no, they were very heavy believers in
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